A mum-of-two was left paralysed on one side after "suffering a headache".
Liverpool woman Lin Cheveau had several strokes in her thirties, the second of which was "devastating", leaving her unable to walk, talk or write due to aphasia, which is caused by damage to the left side of the brain. She'd been "suffering a headache which wouldn't go away", her arm was weak and she couldn't talk properly when she went to collect her kids from school that day.
But when she visited hospital, she was faced with staff who had "little knowledge" of how to handle strokes. Fast diagnosis and treatment are vital for preventing disability and death as a result of strokes. Lin, now 73, said: "They were inexperienced and that was not their fault. I had no idea what was happening but I could not wait to get home and hide away from the world."
